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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1903
Page
3
Cameos reappear in varied forms from belt clasps to stickpins and cuff links. The trend favors large belt clasps with silver settings. smaller cameos appear as vest clasps, cuff links, tie pins, buttons, and studs. The emphasis remains on carving over color.
A passage of household advice on floor waxing and food prep alongside fashion notes for fall coats. Tips include wax sealing floors, using a fork for pudding, blanching potatoes, keeping cheese mold-free, and pest control with kerosene. Also described are linings for roasts, griddle cake tips, and fabric care. Fall coat designs feature long loose coats with circular capes and bishop sleeves, using Tussore or tweed fabrics, designed for easy home construction and cost savings.
A long popular Gibson dress features fleece backed plaited panels at front and back with a waist bloused effect. It closes under the left front plaits, collar and cuffs are pointed, and a fitted line is optional. Skirt uses deep plaits for fullness, suitable for wash goods, silk, or wool, and makes a charming school frock in dark blue serge.
A fashion note discusses skirt styles for fall with emphasis on many gored designs and a ripple effect. It notes the appeal of straight gored skirts and advises delaying sleeves, detailing puffed or balloon sleeves and the use of milliners' wire for crisp effect. Long close fitting cuffs replace narrow ones.
The article catalogs practical fashion trends and garment details, highlighting mercerized fabrics, striped flannel autumn shirts, velvet buttons on cloth drapes, corset coats and square sacques, ruching from small roses to six inch frills, a squirrel muff with ears, rosebud fringe for formal wear, revived pinked frills, immature greenish dahlias on a white hat, a blouse of ecru silk with fagoted plaits, and a Wiener Chic floor wax method with summer-grade wax prep.
Handbags in geranium and red lou Isino are considered smart. They may be unlined or lined with white or red china silk. A two inch heading precedes casings that hold broad geranium taffeta ribbons worn over the arm.
Theodor Mommsen, a leading German jurist and historian, died in Berlin on November 1 at nearly 86. Born in Garding in 1817, he held professorships from age 30 in Leipzig and Zurich and later in Breslau and Berlin. His Rome history is celebrated, and he supported the Boers in the South African War while sharply criticizing Britain's policy.
The loss of Theodor Mommsen leaves Germany without a link to past scholars. He hosted lively conversations in Charlottenburg and discussed American topics. He urged publication of his reports after death and favored a German state within the United States. He advocated university freedom and closer Anglo German ties while arranging his manuscript collection. Germany grieves for one of its greatest sons.
Devil Anse Hatfield, once a Hatfield McCoy feud figure, becomes a detective and captures two men in Logan County jail accused of killing a Syrian peddler near Hatfield home. After the body was found the suspects fled, Hatfield organized a posse and chased them for thirty miles through the mountains before arrest.
The piece contrasts the late Earl of Beaconsfield as morally and politically brave yet physically cowardly. It recounts a joke from his wife describing Benjamin Disraeli as the greatest coward she ever saw and recalls his admission that he truly feared physical danger.
Rt. Rev. Thomas Fielding Scott, first Episcopal bishop in Oregon, ordained Oct. 22, 1853, will have his semi centennial celebrated in Portland on Jan 8. A prior resident of Hingis, he secured a $1,000 donation from William Aspinwall toward a new Oregon church before leaving for his field.
New York renters will soon access premier apartments with fresh air systems fed by electric suction fans, electric closets for kitchen ranges, top floor servants' rooms, long distance phones, hydrostatic elevator power, and a variety of suites from one room to fourteen rooms. Prices range from $0, to $60 monthly for bachelor units, with larger housekeeping configurations priced up to $6,000 a year, plus optional non housekeeping and maid services.
Chauncey M. Depew recalls a near miss from thirty years ago when he declined lending $10,000 to Alexander Graham Bell and Gardiner Hubbard to develop the talking telegraph. He notes that accepting might have left him wealthy but unmotivated, risking a life of idle ease and obscurity.
James M Barrie refused reporters then wrote a short autobiography describing his arrival in London and a humorous pattern of anecdotes about prefered cigars, a grocer's boy, a pet whale, and feeding it chestnuts.
Robert J. Wright of Rockville Centre Long Island sues the Long Island Railroad claiming a train delayed for a wedding caused humiliation and alleged denial of an intended stop. He seeks compensation for the perceived affront to his family and veracity.
Montana Senator Gibson aged 73, a widower, is urged as the next elderly senator to wed. Chauncey Depew says Cupid works in the upper house as several colleagues loom as potential husbands, including Clark 64, Millard 67, Daniel 61, Dillingham 60, and Warres 59 from Wyoming.
A fragmentary newsletter piece recalls Arapahoe Jim and Logtown justice, notes Maine’s oldest woman Mrs. Salome Sellers at 104 celebrating a century, and surveys Donald Stuart’s Struggle for Persia describing the Shah’s palace as an opulent yet perilous display with jeweled continents, diamond throne and pearl carpet.
Workmen have located the granite marker on State street that marks where Attucks Carr and Maverick fell in the Boston massacre and where early revolutionary blood was shed. The marker was uncovered during pavement removal for the State street subway excavations. Engineers worked yesterday to determine the exact spot.
The Boston Globe describes a granite circle with a ten foot diameter and a central hub one foot across. Thirteen spokes extend to the rim, symbolizing the thirteen original colonies and Attucks blood. The rim holds fifty two blocks, five per spoke. Fees for Lao X11 physicians total four thousand to Dr Lapponi two thousand to Prof Mas roni and two thousand to Prof Rowsontr.
G Hamlon of Gorham displayed a potato weighing one pound eleven ounces, a notable large specimen announced in local notes.
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